Thomas Carlyle Quotes on Politics
Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish essayist, historian, and philosopher and one of the most prominent Victorian moral voices. This page collects quotes attributed to Thomas Carlyle on the topic of politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History -
“The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.”
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays(1827–1855) | Richter . -
“These are the two vices that beset Government Offices; both of them originating in insufficient Intellect,—that sad insufficiency from which, directly or indirectly, all evil whatsoever springs!”
Downing Street (April 1, 1850) -
“It is no longer the moral, religious, spiritual condition of the people that is our concern, but their physical, practical, economical condition, as regulated by public laws.”
Signs of the Times(1829)